Coach unhappy about Williams calling out ‘O’

Gregg Williams’ shot at the Jets offense went over about as well as his defense has played this year.

When the Jets defensive coordinator was asked on Friday about the team giving up 32.2 points per game, Williams said it wasn’t good but “a lot of it is not all defensively.” Asked what he was referring to, Williams replied, “Yeah, you’ll have to figure that out.”

That comment made its way back to head coach Adam Gase, who made it clear Sunday he wasn’t thrilled with the thinly veiled criticism. “I wasn’t happy about it [Williams’ comment],” Gase said after the Jets’ 24-0 loss to the Dolphins at Hard Rock Stadium. “We talked about it. Right now, I feel like our players are doing such a good job as far as trying to get things righted. Everything we say, it matters. He understood that we gotta set the right example.”

Gase took it a step further in a production meeting with the CBS broadcast crew Saturday.

“That’s not what we need,” Gase told CBS, per the broadcast. “No one is pointing fingers. We all need to pull in the same direction.

“Everyone needs to shut up and play.” Television cameras also showed Gase and the controversial Williams having what appeared to be a pointed conversation before the game, but Gase said it was not about Williams’ comments. Instead, Gase said, it was about getting late notice that the officials had an issue with the way center Connor McGovern was holding the ball before he snapped it. Even before the Jets got shut out Sunday, their offense was last in the league in points per game (15), second-to-last in yards per game (279.4) and had the third-lowest time of possession in 26:29 per game. Their lack of ball movement often created good starting field position for their opponents.

The Jets defense, meanwhile, was equally as bad early on Sunday before settling down. The Jets picked off Ryan Fitzpatrick twice and held the Dolphins to three points in the second half, though the game felt out of reach by then. The unit still gave up 302 yards and added a personal foul for unnecessary roughness — the kind of penalty that has plagued Williams’ defense through an 0-6 start.

“I think he was trying to talk about complementary football, three phases playing together,” Gase said of Williams’ comment. “Me and Gregg talk so much and we talk through a lot of things, not just football. We talk through things and majority of the time, we’re exactly thinking the same thing and we’ll have discussions if we’re not. At that moment, we’re just trying to get guys focused on doing things better. Us as coaches, we gotta do the same thing.”